Ballyhoorisky

210 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoorisky, from 35 m² to 292,210 m² (29.22 ha, 72.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhoorisky in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Oct 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT BUNGALOW AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW DORMER BUNGALOW, TOGETHER WITH NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461692

• 8 Aug 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND INCREASING OF THE HEIGHT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND UPGRADING THE EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351174

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC AREA TO TWO NO. BEDROOMS (EN SUITE), STUDY, SHOWER ROOM, LANDING AND (B) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351017

• 26 Jun 2023Conditional

  (A) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (B) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350904

• 8 Jun 2023N/a

  (A) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND (B) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350814

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

• DG008-005 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Ballyroosky Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on a local rise in an area of rock outcrop close to the coast. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG008-026001 Burial
  Description

  ‘In January 1990 human bone was discovered on Illanaght, a small tidal island forming part of the townland of Ballyhooriskey on the Fanad peninsula, Co. Donegal. The island is a low grassy eminence c.30m in diameter, separated from dry land but only cut off at very high tides. The discovery was reported to the Gardaí, who removed the skull to the morgue in Letterkenny and reported the find to the NMI. A number of days later the remaining bones were dug up by a local person apparently in search of ‘treasure’, and the entirety of the remains were subsequently reburied on site by the Gardaí. The site was investigated by Raghnall O Floinn, but as the remains were ex situ by the time of investigation this report this report is based on the Garda observations. The skeleton was found on the seaward side of the island to the north-east. It lay approximately east/west, with the head to the west, in shingle just underneath the sod. There was no evidence of grave-markers or stone slabs, and it appears that the grave was simply an unlined pit. The body (1990:2) lay extended in a supine position with the head to the west. No artefacts were found with this burial.’ (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 466) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 January 2015

• DG008-026002 Mound
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1840. Pitched thatched roof with raised ridge, rendered copings and having two low, rendered chimneystacks to end walls. Smooth rendered walls on plinth course. Square-headed diminutive openings with painted concrete sills and replacement timber windows and door. Set back from road and attached to second three-bay single-storey vernacular house to east, with ruinous outbuilding to west.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1840, having windbreak entrance. Three-bay single-storey thatched house attached to west gable. Ruinous, roofless structure to east end. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered copings, lacking rainwater goods, and having two rendered chimneystacks to ends. Flat rendered roof to windbreak. Painted, lime-rendered rubble stone to front and exposed rubble elsewhere. Square-headed openings, windows having painted rendered concrete sills and replacement timber windows and battened door. Set back from road in vernacular settlement of An Seanbhaile [Old Town].

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Ballyhoorisky.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhoorisky.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballyhoorisky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballyhoorisky · Baile Uí Fhuaruisce

Area

1,322,403 m² (132.24 ha, 326.77 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel Glebe, Sessiagh, Tonbane Glebe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyhoorisky on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.